All the headlines from our China Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 14 2014 // Chinese insurers face increasing risks from their investments in property and local government debt as the nation’s economic growth slows, according to a senior regulatory official.The China Insurance Regulatory...
Apr 23 2014 // Collective trusts that insurers are allowed to invest in are confined to those backed by financing assets and non-listed equity assets, according to draft rules posted on the website of China Insurance Regulatory...
Apr 21 2014 // Selling insurance against a financial crisis should not be difficult five years after the last one nearly wrecked the global economy.But when it comes to China, the world’s second-largest economy, the probability of...
Apr 16 2014 // South Korea’s government said 293 people remain missing after a ferry carrying hundreds of high school students sank en route to the resort island of Jeju. At least two people, including a student, died in the...
Apr 8 2014 // China’s decision to partially relax mergers and acquisition rules in the insurance industry could see global insurance firms expand their footprint in the $288 billion market.Beijing would allow insurers, including...
Apr 7 2014 // Joe Ng has joined Miller Insurance Services in Hong Kong in a treaty reinsurance business production role. Joe NgMiller Insurance Services Before joining Miller, Joe Ng spent 43 years at China Taiping Group in various...
Apr 3 2014 // Alibaba, the world’s biggest e-commerce company, changed how China shops. Now the man driving its blockbuster U.S. stock sale wants to transform the rest of the country’s services industry, adding new users to...
Apr 3 2014 // A.M. Best has affirmed the financial strength rating of ‘B++’ (Good) and issuer credit rating of “bbb+” of the Philippines-based Malayan Insurance Co., Inc. (MICO), both with stable outlooks. The...
Mar 31 2014 // The search for flight MH370, the Malaysian jetliner that vanished over the South China Sea on March 8, has involved more than two dozen countries and 60 aircraft and ships but been bedeviled by regional rivalries.While...
Mar 28 2014 // The three-week hunt for Malaysian Air Flight 370 focused on a new area in the Indian Ocean today after radar data indicated the plane probably flew a shorter distance than earlier estimated.The new lead was based on...
Mar 27 2014 // Chinese regulators have told the country’s two largest insurers to stop selling coverage against smog, a week after such policies were launched, the China Daily reported on Thursday.The newspaper did not say why the...
Mar 25 2014 // As the final hours of Malaysian Air Flight MH370 remain wrapped in mystery, the question of who bears full liability for the jet’s disappearance is also unresolved.This much is clear: Families of the 227 passengers...
Mar 19 2014 // Ping An Insurance Group Co., China’s second-biggest insurer, is collaborating with Ctrip.com International Ltd. to sell smog insurance to tourists traveling to Beijing and six other Chinese cities.Travelers in...
Mar 17 2014 // Spanish insurance group MAPFRE’s Chairman and CEO, Antonio Huertas, referred to the strategic objectives for the next three years, as he announced the highlights at its Annual General Meeting. The group forecast...
Mar 14 2014 // An investigation into the disappearance of a Malaysia Airlines jetliner is focusing more on a suspicion the flight was deliberately diverted, as evidence suggests it was last headed out over the Andaman Islands, sources...
Mar 14 2014 // Ping An Insurance (Group) Co., China’s second-biggest insurer, fell to the lowest in more than a month in Hong Kong trading after reporting profit that trailed analysts’ estimates.The shares fell 1.1 percent to...
Mar 12 2014 // The search for a missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner expanded on Wednesday to cover a swathe of Southeast Asia, from the South China Sea to India’s territorial waters, with authorities no closer to explaining what...
Mar 11 2014 // A new report from A.M. Best concludes that “growth rates in the insurance markets of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries remain higher than those of developed markets and have kept pace with those of some key...
Mar 6 2014 // Closer cooperation between China and the United States, the top two greenhouse gas emitters, on combating global warming is boosting prospects for a U.N. deal meant to be agreed next year, the U.N.’s climate chief...
Feb 28 2014 // A.M. Best has assigned a financial strength rating of ‘B++’ (Good) and an issuer credit rating of “bbb” to China Taiping Insurance (UK) Company Limited (CTIUK), both with stable outlooks Best said...